William Blake

ISBN-13: 9780582237100 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 220 str.

John Lucas; Lucas John

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This collection of critical essays on William Blake covers a wide range to include Marxist, new historicist, feminist and psychological approaches. Between them, the essays explore the most significant areas and moments of his career as poet and also print maker, illustrator and visionary artist.

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General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
"Mad" Blake
Marxist Criticism
i) Blake and the Radical Tradition
ii) London
"History From the Bottom Up" and the New Historicism
Blake and Art Criticism
Language and Deconstruction
Reader-Response Theory

2. E.P Thompson, "The Divine Image"
3. John Mee, "Dangerous Enthusiasm"
4. David Erdman, "Infinite London"
5. Stewart Crehan, "Producers and Devourers"
6. Susan Matthews, "Jerusalem and Nationalism"
7. John Barrell, "'Original', 'Character' and 'Individual'"
8. Kathleen Raine, "A New Mode of Printing"
9. Brenda S. Webster, "Blake, Women, and Sexuality"
10. Gerda S. Norvig, "Female Subjectivity and the Desire of Reading (in)to Balke's Book of Thel"
11. Michael Simpson, "Who Didn't Kill Blake's Fly: Moral Law and the Rule of Grammar in Songs of Experience"
12. Matt Simpson, "Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience"

Notes on Authors
Further Reading
Index

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John Lucas